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- [Voiceover] One of the benefits of working…with FileMaker Pro over other database platforms…is that you can deploy FileMaker on various devices…like iPads and iPhones using the FileMaker Go app.…And when you do this, you likely want to design layouts…that are specific to those devices.…Now, each of those devices have a different screen size…so you should really be designing those device-specific…layouts so that they fit the device.…Now even users on desktops could have different screens…of various screen resolutions, so it's always a good idea…to find out what screen sizes your users will be using…before you design your layouts.…

And the best practice there is that you pull…all the different users that will be using your system…and find out who's got the lowest resolution.…And you will then build your FileMaker layouts…to the lowest resolution, and what I'm talking about there…if you go into Layout Mode, you'll see that we've got…the bottom of the footer to the height of the header,…that gives us the entire height of our layout size,…

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5/10/2016

Learn how to design and build smart, secure databases with FileMaker Pro 15—the business solution used everywhere from home offices to Fortune 500 companies all around the world. Cris Ippolite, drawing on years of experience with clients at his own development firm, iSolutions, walks through essential FileMaker Pro skills, from creating tables and fields to designing layouts that display your data in a smart way. If you need help navigating FileMaker Pro for the first time, watch the opening chapters, which cover database basics. Cris also shows you how to find and sort data, create reports, import and export data, and write scripts and calculations—everything you need to build your first database with FileMaker Pro 15.